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ID: LSAT-LR-011
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Point at Issue
Difficulty level: Medium

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Fenwick: The county should replace the wooden footbridges on the moor path with steel ones. Each wooden bridge has to be rebuilt every twelve years, and over the life of a single steel bridge that comes to nearly three times the cost.

Ivers: The moor path is walked for its wildness. A steel bridge would last, certainly, but every walker who crossed one would be reminded that the moor is managed. The wooden bridges cost more precisely because they ask less of the landscape, and that is what the path is for.

Fenwick and Ivers disagree over whether

Areplacing the wooden footbridges with steel ones would cost the county less over the life of a single steel bridge than going on rebuilding wooden ones every twelve years

Bthe moor path should be closed to walkers while a bridge is being rebuilt rather than kept open by way of a temporary crossing

Ca single steel footbridge would outlast several of the twelve-year cycles the wooden ones go through

Dwalkers crossing a bridge on the moor path can tell from the bridge under their feet whether the landscape around them is being managed

Elong-run cost, rather than what the path is for, is the consideration that should settle what the footbridges are made of

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